Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Teachtaí Gerry Adams agus Micheál Martin raised this morning the recent number of suicides in Cork and the Taoiseach referred to some of the interventions which were made afterwards. I am from the communities to which the Taoiseach referred. Those interventions were actually sought and initiated by the community. While I commend the HSE and the services that assisted and provided that, the reality is that there is no off-the-shelf approach to deal with spikes like that by way of community interventions. Will the Taoiseach demand from the task force that it establishes a standard procedure to deal with spikes like that to allow communities to respond rapidly to put an end to and halt any possibility of a knock-on effect?

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